The Occupational Context of Mismatch
Measuring the Link Between Occupations and Areas of Study to Better Understand Job-Worker Match
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11970495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Marin (0000-0002-0557-5167, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Sean Hayes (0000-0001-7727-7145), Sean T Hayes (0000-0003-3631-7782, University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0318-6431 • E-ISSN: 1710-1123 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.29173/cjs19415 |
| OpenAlex | W2606187926 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Scholars have long been interested in the prevalence, causes, and consequences of workers being well matched or poorly matched to their jobs. When studying match along dimensions of education or skill, mismatch has been defined as a deficit or surplus in the level of skill or education, without necessary regard for the relevance of either. More recently researchers have moved beyond this deficit/surplus approach to studying mismatch to ask if workers’ skills or education are relevant to their jobs. In this article we argue that the next step for workers studying job-worker match is to consider the relevance of relevance. We argue in studying the relevance of workers’ education it is necessary to consider and measure the extent to which occupations draw broadly from across educational specialties or hire primarily from pools of workers trained in specific areas. The causes and consequences of not having relevant education will be different in occupations that are closely tied to particular fields of study than in those not linked to any field of study. To facilitate this research agenda we develop seven measures of the link between occupations and fields of study in the Canadian labour market. We test the validity and robustness of these measures. We discuss when each measure is most appropriate and provide an appendix listing values for the three best-performing measures, calculated for Statistics Canada 4-digit occupational codes
Context (archaeology · Economics · Field (mathematics · Listing (finance · Political science · Relevance (law · Sociology · Test (biology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Mathematics · Psychology
The Credential Society
Education and job match
Economy and Society
Education Match and Job Match
Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification
Socioeconomic indices and sexual inequality
Degrees of Control
Measuring Population Diversity
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles as a Source of Occupational Data
Social Background, Credential Inflation and Educational Strategies
Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market
The Social Transformation of American Medical Education
Moving forward? Complementary and alternative practitioners seeking self-regulation
Delivering the 'new' Canadian midwifery
Why Do Some Occupations Pay More than Others? Social Closure and Earnings Inequality in the United States
A Model and a Metric for the Analysis of the Intragenerational Status Attainment Process
Fields of Study, Acquired Skills and the Wage Benefit from a Matching Job
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |